Artist: Janet Mait

Findlay Galleries presents Janet Mait: Voice in Color, an exhibition of new paintings by the New York-based abstract painter whose work has quietly earned a devoted following among collectors.

In this body of work, Mait gives color a kind of presence you don't often encounter — immediate, yet earned. Her paintings open across fields of luminous white, where saturated forms gather and dissolve, veiled passages shift in and out of focus, and a single expressive line can hold an entire composition in place.

What sets Mait apart is where she came from. Before abstraction, there was figure. Before painting, sculpture. That background doesn't announce itself in her work, but you feel it in the sensitivity to balance, in the spatial tension between forms that seem to lean toward one another without ever quite touching.

White, in Mait's hands, is never simply background. It is light, pause, and breathing room — an active participant in every composition. Against it, a blue passage opens into depth. A note of red arrives with visceral intensity. Pale washes create atmosphere; black anchors it all, giving the work its measure and gravity.

Voice in Color is an exhibition exploring expression as much as restraint: Mait’s paintings are infused with pure emotions but remain controlled and not overwhelmed by them. They ask something of the viewer: a moment of stillness, a willingness to look slowly. For those who do, the work opens up in ways that stay with you.